Matthew Cranston of The Australian Financial Review reports: In a magazine at a hotel in the northern Chinese city Dalian, there is a map charting the city’s district, not much bigger than Brisbane.

Jennifer Hewett of The Australian Financial Review reports: I am en route to Shenyang, a city of 12 million people, in north-east China. En route at about 300km/h, that is.

Jennifer Hewett of The Australian Financial Review reports: I am in my hotel room half-listening to CNN when the tv screen suddenly goes blank. I put it down to a technical glitch.

Lisa Martin of Australian Associated Press reports: Could Australian cows help end China's national embarrassment on the soccer field?

Jennifer Hewett of The Australian Financial Review reports: The cranes seem to hover over almost every street, alongside the massive apartment blocks and office towers under constant construction.

Jennifer Hewett of The Australian Financial Review reports: There are hiccups aplenty in the vision of a fast expanding market for quality Australian wines.

It can be easy to place too much emphasis on the big picture when it comes to the commercial and political ties between Australia and China. Relations, so enormous in macro economic terms, still come back to individuals. One can’t overlook the importance of travel and education.

Ben Doherty won the Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism in 2013 for a series of articles exposing exploitation in the Bangladeshi garment industry making clothes for Australia. He explains how the APJC fellowship he undertook to Indonesia and East Timor in 2008 kick-started his career as a foreign correspondent.

Tony Abbott wants to see cranes standing above the cities of Australia. First he’ll have to come to western China and the ancient city of Chongqing because that’s where it appears almost all the world’s cranes are being used.

My fellow Austraining International volunteer, Claudia Santangelo, and I are now coming into our fifth month working with the Association of Community Radio Stations in Timor-Leste (ARKTL) to support community radio stations here.